John Powell Quotes

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.

Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days.

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

Communication works for those who work at it.

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

When we contact each other, we change each other. We are constantly making each other.

What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Frank Zappa

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.

Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.

You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.